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True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde



The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. ~James B. Herrick



Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973



Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda



Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. ~Author Unknown



You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash



What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. ~Hubert H. Humphrey



The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ~Robert Farrar Capon, "Being Let Go," New York Times, 5 August 1984 The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert



Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson



You can only trust yourself... and barely that. ~Paige Wilson



A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter



Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails. ~Emma Goldman



The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ~Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, Etats et empires de la lune, 1656



The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. ~Anatole France



The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook, 1956



He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. ~William Shakespeare



Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off you? ~Flash Rosenberg



Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. ~Osbert Sitwell



There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. ~Robert Benchley